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Question: What bacteriological means did Detachment 731 employ?

Answer: Its accepted weapons were the germs of plague, anthrax and gas gangrene.

Question: Which of these disease carriers were considered the most effective?

Answer: Plague bacteria.

Question: What methods of employing these bacteriological means were adopted by the
detachment?

Answer: First, spraying bacteria from aircraft, second, dropping of porcelain bacteria
bombs.

Question: Were plague fleas employed to infect human beings?

Answer: Yes, they were employed in China.

Question: When you joined the detachment, its Chief was General Ishii?

Answer: No, the Chief of the detachment at that time was Major General Kitano.

Question: Then Major General Kitano was succeeded by General Ishii, isn't that so?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What instructions regarding the development of bacteriological means of
warfare did General Ishii bring with him when he came to the detachment as its Chief?'

Answer: After he assumed his duties, Lieutenant General Ishii used to tell us almost daily
that the work on plague must be activized.

Question: On plague?

Answer: On plague and the breeding of fleas. After Ishii's arrival, and in connection with
the instructions received by the detachment to expand the mass production of fleas, special
courses of training on the mass breeding of these parasites were instituted.

Question: Did any of the workers from the branches attend these courses?

Answer: Five, men attended from each branch, or twenty in all.

Question: Will you tell the Court about the sweets which were prepared by Colonel Oota?

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